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the former seems to correspond better with your description
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the former seems to correspond better with your description

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Ok so, i have a folder, which contains php scripts.<br />
I wana make it so if its a script i dont want them to see, i easily throw them to a 404 page.<br />
However, for this one folder, there is one subfolder i still need to give them access to. Now im kinda new to regex but i gave it a go:<br />
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^PATH/(?!ajax)(.*)\.php$<br />
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or<br />
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^PATH/(?!ajax.*)\.php$<br />
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The idea is, every .php file they try to access will redirect them to the 404, apart from a folder containing the text ajax.<br />
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Does anyone know how i can get this regex to work?
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Ok so, i have a folder, which contains php scripts.
I wana make it so if its a script i dont want them to see, i easily throw them to a 404 page.
However, for this one folder, there is one subfolder i still need to give them access to. Now im kinda new to regex but i gave it a go:

^PATH/(?!ajax)(.*)\.php$

or

^PATH/(?!ajax.*)\.php$

The idea is, every .php file they try to access will redirect them to the 404, apart from a folder containing the text ajax.

Does anyone know how i can get this regex to work?

htaccess regex in modrewrite help

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.